First, before I even start this post, I have to say that we almost did not go to ACL this year, but lots of friends told us they were coming to town and wanted to stay with us so we decided to stay in town. If that had not been the case we would have been in Berkeley, CA for the wedding of the year. Congrats Ben and Viv! We were sending love and cheers your way!!!
Because of my trip west the group went with out me on Friday and Saturday we took our time getting over there. We saw a ton of great bands and we got to spend time with out friends who recently moved to Chicago. It was a nice weekend and it was a good pick me up to a rather not so good week.
Here are the shots from the two days. The highlights for me was Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (we saw them open for Toots and the Maytals at the 9:30 club in DC two years ago on our anniversary). I got there early and got a place in the second row. Everyone else sat off to the side and watched me rock out. Another highlight was the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show; we have wanted to see them for a long time. They are a rockin' good time. And, Damien Rice and Bob Dylan were both fantastic, although they both played some sad songs about loss, death and dying which had me crying all over again.
Damien Rice
The crowd for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
I wove my way up.
On Saturday night the White Stripes canceled so they bumped Muse to the closing show. Here they are with the Austin-scape behind.
Grace Potter front and center. Since I really love these guys I got a lot of great shots!
They were awesome!
ACL Sunday crowd
This is the crowd for the hidden gem, an Austin original, Ghostland Observatory. They had the whole place going wild. Being a good Minnesotan they reminded me a little of Prince. The link goes to their myspace page that has all their songs up for free.
They had an amazing light show.
This year's closer was Bob Dylan. We were pretty far back because all 75K people wanted to see him so it was hard to get a seat, let alone a photo. He played some crowd favorites and had me and Erica dancing to the very end.
All in all it was a good year. They are having the $50 ACL '08 raffle next week so all you friends go to the site and sign up (one mailing list that it has paid to be on, we got alerted to discounted tickets this year and saved almost $100 on our admission) to see if you are the lucky winners. You know you have a free place to stay!
Because of my trip west the group went with out me on Friday and Saturday we took our time getting over there. We saw a ton of great bands and we got to spend time with out friends who recently moved to Chicago. It was a nice weekend and it was a good pick me up to a rather not so good week.Here are the shots from the two days. The highlights for me was Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (we saw them open for Toots and the Maytals at the 9:30 club in DC two years ago on our anniversary). I got there early and got a place in the second row. Everyone else sat off to the side and watched me rock out. Another highlight was the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show; we have wanted to see them for a long time. They are a rockin' good time. And, Damien Rice and Bob Dylan were both fantastic, although they both played some sad songs about loss, death and dying which had me crying all over again.
Damien Rice
The crowd for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
I wove my way up.
On Saturday night the White Stripes canceled so they bumped Muse to the closing show. Here they are with the Austin-scape behind.
Grace Potter front and center. Since I really love these guys I got a lot of great shots!
They were awesome!
ACL Sunday crowd
This is the crowd for the hidden gem, an Austin original, Ghostland Observatory. They had the whole place going wild. Being a good Minnesotan they reminded me a little of Prince. The link goes to their myspace page that has all their songs up for free.
They had an amazing light show.
This year's closer was Bob Dylan. We were pretty far back because all 75K people wanted to see him so it was hard to get a seat, let alone a photo. He played some crowd favorites and had me and Erica dancing to the very end.
All in all it was a good year. They are having the $50 ACL '08 raffle next week so all you friends go to the site and sign up (one mailing list that it has paid to be on, we got alerted to discounted tickets this year and saved almost $100 on our admission) to see if you are the lucky winners. You know you have a free place to stay!
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